Scottish
Farm Life
The
"Country Living" Guide to Rural... Scotland. The guide
will definitely appeal to people with a real interest in the
beauty, tranquillity and traditional values of country life,
who are looking for high standards in places to stay, eat
and drink and quality craftsmanship in any products purchased.
Equally for those readers who are seeking a more active life
in the countryside the book provides information on walks
and tours as well as details of The National Trust for Scotland
and Historic Scotland properties. The attractive cover design
incorporates a photograph of Eilean Donan Castle from across
the Loch.
Red
Sky at Night: Autobiography This work looks at the evryday
life of John Barrington, a shepherd to over 750 Blackface
ewes who graze near some of Britain's most beautiful hills
overlooking Loch Katrine.
The
Scottish Country Miller, 1700-1900 This text analyzes
the origins of milling, the social context and daily life
of the miller, and the technical aspects of the industry.
Based on written records and fieldwork, Gauldie gives a detailed
account of the vital importance of the miller within the Scottish
community.
Survival
of the Unfittest: Highland... Clearances and the End of
Isolation. This text analyzes the traumatic changes the Highland
Clearances wrought from dispossessed crofters in their lifestyle,
health and disease patterns in the Scottish Highlands. It
examines the reforms in religion, land tenure and medicine
which later began to rectify the grossest injustices. Scottish
Farm Life.
The
Horsieman: Memories of a Traveller... Some travellers
stuck more to one area. But Johnnie Townsley, my mother's
father, travelled all over. He walked along with a handcart
and went to Inverness, Elgin, right down into Ayrshire and
down to Dumfries. He travelled all through Fife, Angus and
Perthshire - no, not in the wintertime, just in the summertime.
But you see, he was a piper and a horse was no good to him.
He played his bagpipes in the summertime, by the shooting
lodges, big houses, hotels and that. And then he came back
home to Argyll for the winter. In the summertime he took off
again with his family. Duncan Williamson was the son, grandson
and great grandson of nomadic tinsmiths, basket makers, pipers
and storytellers. In this book he describes his life as a
traveller with verve, candour and intimacy, recounting a childhood
spent on the shores of Loch Fyne, work on the small hill farms
in the summer, walking with barrows and prams and later with
horse and cart, the length and breadth of Scotland. He recalls
camping with hundreds of traveller families from the 1940s
to the 1960s, his marriage to his cousin, Jeanie Townsley,
and all the various traditional skills and arts which must
be perfected for a man to maintain his family adequately.
The Horsieman is also the story of traditions long vanished
- of traveller trades, of building tents, of routes travelled
and traditional camping sites, of stories, songs, music and
cures which have been the heritage and tradition of travelling
people in Scotland through the ages. Set mainly in Argyll,
Tayside and all stations in between, Duncan Williamson's story
is told with great warmth and humour and in the inimitable
style of one Scotland's master storytellers. Scottish Farm
Life.
The
Furrow Behind Me Angus MacLellan was regarded throughout
his own lifetime as one of Scotland's finest traditional Gaelic
storytellers. Reminiscences of his life were first recorded
- on tape in Gaelic - in the early years of the 1960s and
later transcribed and translated by John Lorne Campbell into
this English-language biography. Born in 1869 into a poverty-stricken
crofting community on South Uist, Angus MacLellan spent his
childhood and his youth with his family before travelling
from the island to find work first in the militia and then
on the farms of the mainland. His travels came to an end when
he returned to assist and eventually to succeed, his parents
on their croft on South Uist in 1896. Angus MacLellan's memory
for detail and his gift for telling should bring to the reader
a vivid picture of a harsh lifestyle encompassing two centuries
of dramatic change.
Rothiemurchus:
Nature and People on a... Highland Estate. This title
covers a broad spectrum of topics concerning the history of
Rothiemurchus during the last 500 years. Scottish Farm Life.
The
Most Beautiful Villages of Scotland A collection of lavish
photographs celebrates some of Scotland's most scenic glens
and lochs, in a tribute that features such subjects as the
picturesque fishing village of Auchmithie, the Edinburgh-surrounded
community of Dean Village, and the island port-village of
Tobermory on Mull.
Iona:
The Living Memory of a Crofting... Community. The Hebridean
island of Iona has been the focus of intense outside interest
for over 1400 years, from the time of St Columba's monastery
in the sixth century through to the transfer of its renowned
monuments into the care of Historic Scotland in the year 2000.
Yet the people who lived and worked alongside its sacred sites
have been largely overshadowed until now. This book aims to
redress the balance, taking an in-depth look at Iona's economic
and social history during the 18th and 19th centuries - a
period that saw profound change across the Highlands and Islands.
It charts the agricultural reorganization that led to a crofting
system, follows the islanders through the harsh decade of
the potato famine and records their worship and education,
their crafts and customs, and the ties of kinship that underpinned
their community. A broad range of sources are woven together
- documentary, material, topographical and photographic, along
with oral testimony handed down the generations - to create
a vivid picture of Iona's past.
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Hard Work Ye Ken: Midlothian Women... Agnes, Belle, Jessie
and Ruth speak to us straight off the page in their characteristic
"Midlothian" in this, the second book in the "Flashbacks"
series. Each woman has her individual tale to tell, but a
common thread runs through. The life of a bondager was no
rural idyll, but one of long hours and hard work born with
patient dignity. Whether digging tatties, hoeing turnips,
or snatching the farmer's chickens when he wasn't looking,
these four daughters of the soil bestride their busy canvas,
every facet of their lives brought vividly before us in their
own words. Ian MacDougall is the author of two other "Flashbacks"
titles, "Hoggie's Angels" and "Mungo Mackay
and the Green Table".
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